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COGS and the Future of Cloud Cost Management: A Forward Look with Joel Pettigrew

Cloud costs are evolving fast. Learn why reclassifying cloud spend as COGS is key to financial clarity, accountability, and smarter product decisions in the AI era.

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Become a 10X Cloud Engineer: These Skills Will Set You Apart

Becoming a 10X cloud engineer isn’t about talent—it’s about building rare skills, taking ownership, and committing to growth. Here’s how to stand out in cloud engineering.

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The COGS-Driven Approach to Fixing Cloud Cost Tagging

Why cloud cost tagging breaks down—and how a COGS-driven approach can bring clarity, accuracy, and consistency across teams and tools.

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GenAI and Cloud Cost Management: A Productivity Revolution for Engineers

How AI-powered tools like Yota Copilot and GPT-4 are streamlining cloud cost management, automating optimizations, and helping engineers focus on high-impact work.

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COGS: The Missing Link in Cloud Cost Management

Discover how reclassifying cloud spend as COGS enhances cost visibility, improves gross margins, and drives smarter financial decisions.

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The Four Pillars of Cloud Cost Management

Struggling with cloud costs? Learn how the Four Pillars of Cloud Cost Management: Visibility, Allocation, Optimization, and Budgeting & Forecasting can help!

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What FinOps Leaders Need to Know About AI, ML, and Deep Learning

AI, ML, and Deep Learning are reshaping how FinOps leaders tackle cloud cost management—but do you know the difference between these terms and their real-world applications?

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Understanding AWS Savings Plans vs Reserved Instances in 2025

AWS EC2 Savings Plans vs. Reserved Instances (RIs) - which one is better in 2025? Learn the answer here.

Cloud Computing's Environmental Impact and Cloud Waste - A Podcast Discussion

During this Cloudtweaks podcast, our CEO, Asim Razzaq, speaks with the host Steve Prentice on the environmental impact of cloud computing. We can measure cloud waste with unused or underutilized reserved instances, but how can we measure the carbon footprint of cloud waste?

Crucial Guide to Understanding Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Label Values

Implementing containers and Kubernetes into your on-premises or cloud environment became necessary as businesses raced to modernize, but some have struggled to efficiently manage microservice-based containers. This blog reviews Kubernetes labels, label selectors, and tagging in Amazon EKS.

The Ultimate Guide to Achieving Cloud Cost Visibility with Yotascale

There are multiple cloud cost management services available for managing your cloud spend. This guide will help you understand the benefits of those services as well as highlight some of the gaps that are also important to consider when looking to gain deeper visibility into your cloud costs.

Optimizing EKS Costs: Kubernetes Cost Management

Kubernetes is one of the leading tools for managing cloud-native applications, but understanding what drives the costs of your Kubernetes clusters can be challenging. In this two-part series, we’ll explore the aspects of Kubernetes costs and strategies for optimizing those costs.

Optimize Your Cluster Management Fees with Yotascale - Kubernetes Cost Management

Kubernetes is one of the leading tools for managing cloud-native applications, but understanding what drives the costs of your Kubernetes clusters can be challenging. In this two-part series, we’ll explore the aspects of Kubernetes costs and strategies for optimizing those costs.

Yotascale 2020 Reflections

2020 has been an exciting year for Yotascale, with strong company growth and a new funding round to fuel our expansion in 2021.